LATEST AUSTRALIAN.
(Per Alhambra Hokitika.)
Melboubn*, The ‘Age’ has accused the Chairman o. mittees of being drunk and incapable in the Hon* and has repeated the charge. Currency has been given to a most disgraceful scandal, in which the names of well nigh the highest personages in the Colony are freely mentioned. There areoll sorts of disreputable scandals about, and persons are so pointedly alluded to that they might os well he photographed. Walter Sherwin, the well-known tenor, has been accused of smuggling cigars. Only about a third of the whole shipment of salmon ova remains sound. Scarlet fever is still prevalent, and many deaths continue. Madame DeMurskahas concluded her performances here, and will probably leave for New Zealand next week. The Assembly passed a Bill to establish the postal card system, and two of the new taxation bills. Fearful drought in Queensland is reported. In the Warrego district the thermometer stood at 112 for three weeks. All the rivers are fast drying up, and cattle are dying in all directions., In Bourke there has been no heavy rain for two years. The Suez mail will be a week later this month.
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Evening Star, Issue 4084, 29 March 1876, Page 3
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192LATEST AUSTRALIAN. Evening Star, Issue 4084, 29 March 1876, Page 3
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